James, On Friday 19 November 2004 14:20, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
There are other issues with cable Internet, too. Many service providers disallow servers on cable links and static addressing can be pretty hard to come by. My DSL provider has no such restrictions and offers me up to 8 statically assigned IP addresses at this service level. Both servers and static addressing are necessary for me, since this is a home office and my business partner must be able to access servers at my site.
I have dhcp, from my cable ISP. However, it changes so seldom, it's virtually static. I also have a host name, which being derived from my MAC addresses, never changes. So, even if my IP changes, I can still access my network.
Yes, the same is true for many cable subscribers, but there's no guarantee. You may be able to handle this in limited cirsumstances, but you cannot as a business person publicize such addresses, lest they become invalid at the whim of your ISP. And for those poor souls whose ISP uses PPPOE, it's another story alltogether. Their addresses can, and from what I hear, often do, change on every reauthentication, of which there can be several each day. Poor saps... Randall Schulz